Attaching the rail of carriage-seats



0. SGOFIELD Carriage-Seat Rail.

Patnted Apr. 1-9, 1859.

I fnvezzlor 4 N-PETERS, PHOTO-l-QTNDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. O.

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CORNELIUS SCOFIELD, OF TRUMBULL, CONNECTICUT.

ATTACHING THE BAIL OF CARRIAGE-SEATS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 23,712, dated April 19, 1859-.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS Soornna), of Trumbull, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Rail for Carriage-Seats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1, represents a transverse vertical section of a carriage seat with one of my rails, the line 00, m, Fig. 2, indicating the plane of section. Fig. 2, is a plan or top view of ditto.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in supporting the rail by which the top of a carriage is attached to the seat, by means of arms the ends of which form half-round recesses which fit on the rod which constitutes the rail, and only two of those arms form jaws which extend far enough beyond the rail for a screw to pass through in front of said rail so that the same may easily be removed by taking out these screws and by springing the rods constituting the rails out of the several recesses in which they rest.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my improvement I will proceed to describe the same.

A, represents the seat of a carriage to which arms a, are attached by means of fianches Z), and screws or tacks, and these arms are bent over the edge of the seat and the outer ends form half round recesses (l, large enough for the rail B, to rest in. This rail consists of three rods, 6, f, and g, the rods 6, and f, being parallel to the smaller sides of the seat and the rod 9, being placed alongside the larger side of the same. The rods 6, and f, are turned up at their ends and screws 12,, h, are attached to their ends, and the ends of the rod 9, are also provided with screws z, i, which together with the aforesaid screws h, h, serve to secure the top of the carriage to the rail.

The arms C, C, which are nearest to the ends of the smaller sides of the seat, are provided with jaws j, which extend beyond the rods 6, and f, and thumb screws 70, pass through these jaws in front of said rods.

In order to secure the rail to the seat, the rod 9, is placed into the recesses cl, of the arms a, at the longest side of the seat, and the rods 6, and j", are passed through the jaws 7', of the arms C, and placed into the recesses (Z, of the arms a, at the two smaller sides of the seat, and the screws 7:, are inserted and the rail is perfectly secured to the seat. In order to remove the same, it is only necessary to remove the thumb-screws Z0, and to spring the ends 6, and f, out of the jaws j, and by pushing back the rail, the same can be removed.

I am well aware that rails have heretofore been attached to carriage seats by arms attached to seats in a manner very similar to mine, and each provided with jaws which project over the rail so that screws may be placed in those parts of the jaws before the rail in order to secure the same. In this case, however, it was necessary to remove a large number of screws in order to be able to remove the rail; I do not claim, therefore, the manner of securing the rail to the seat by means of arms and screws, but

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the arms a, the ends of which form half-round recesses (Z, in combination with the arms C, and thumb screws is, for the purpose of supporting the rail and securing the same to the seat in the manner substantially as set forth.

CORNELIUS SCOFIELD.

Witnesses WM. R. PmnsoN, JOHN E. SELLEoK. 

